newbie question

[Julian Field]

At 16:40 15/05/2002, you wrote:
>I can send you the klex virus I got in my yahoo mail account. I've been
>using that for testing.

The Eicar test file (totally harmless but detected by all the scanners)
would be a better choice for this. You can download it from www.eicar.org.


>On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 11:23, Bill wrote:
> > Is there a log file showing what the mailscanner has done as far as emails
> > scanned attachements scanned ? How do I know mailscanner is actually
> doing a
> > virus scan and not just passing the email on for delivery. Im using
> f-prot as
> > the virus scanner. Is there a way to test that the whole system is working
> > correctly?
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